Myrtle Beach, SC - At tonight's FOX News/Wall Street Journal Republican Presidential debate, Rick Santorum showed he is the one candidate ready to not just be the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, but to take on President Obama.

Hogan Gidley, National Communications Director, said: "Rick Santorum showed tonight why he is the best prepared candidate to take on Mitt Romney and eventually President Obama. This is a time when we need a consistent conservative who can provide bold contrasts with the president, not pale pastels. Rick Santorum is the one candidate whose conservative record of accomplishment stands as a strong contrast to the President, and is ready to lead on day one."

SANTORUM SAID:

In Response To Congressman Paul's Attacks:

"I wear attacks from left-wing organizations as a badge of honor."

On SuperPAC Ads That Distort Records:

"I would say stop it."

On Extending Unemployment Benefits:

"We are not doing people any favors by keeping them unemployment for a long time."

On Poverty:

"The Brookings Institution found that if you do three things - work, graduate high school and get married before you have children - will help you from avoiding poverty. If you do those three things, only 2% of people live in poverty while 77% live above the poverty line. And what has the Obama Administration done? Elaine Bennett, wife of Bill Bennett, runs an organization to help at risk girls, and the Obama Administration has a policy that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices. They can no longer teach abstinence. They must remain neutral. Neutrality ends in poverty."

On Newt Gingrich's Social Security Plan:

"I am for private accounts, but your plan would add hundreds of billions of dollars to our huge deficit. It is putting the debt on the backs of our children. That is fiscal insanity."